Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1219
dc.title	Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo. Tragedia filmica di un uomo (ridicolo?)
dc.contributor.author	Borin Fabrizio
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/archivio-dannunzio/2017/1/il-delitto-di-giovanni-episcopo/
dc.description.abstract	Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo is the filmic version of the short novel Giovanni Episcopo (1892) by Gabriele D’Annunzio. The film title explains in advance the result of a terrible story in melodramatic tones concerning betrayed sentiments and the frustrated dignity of an office worker in Rome during the end of nineteenth century. Love for the wife Ginevra and mostly for his litlle son Ciro allows Episcopo to bear disappointments, naughtinesses, violences, humiliations inflicted to him by the amoral Giulio Wanzer, the lover of his wife, until, in a defense gusp of his paternal pride, Episcopo kills him before constitute to the police.
dc.relation.ispartof	Archivio d’Annunzio
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 4 \| October 2017
dc.issued	2017-10-05
dc.dateAccepted	2017-06-06
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-01-11
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2421-292X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2421-292X/AdA-4-17-10
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Betrayed sentiments
dc.subject	Betrayed sentiments
dc.subject	Candour
dc.subject	Candour
dc.subject	Episcopo, the ridicolous man
dc.subject	Episcopo, the ridicolous man
dc.subject	Grotesque melodrama
dc.subject	Grotesque melodrama
dc.subject	Trampled dignity
dc.subject	Trampled dignity
dc.subject	Violence and humiliations
dc.subject	Violence and humiliations

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Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo

Tragedia filmica di un uomo (ridicolo?)

Fabrizio Borin Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo is the filmic version of the short novel Giovanni Episcopo (1892) by Gabriele D’Annunzio. The film title explains in advance the result of a terrible story in melodramatic tones concerning betrayed sentiments and the frustrated dignity of an office worker in Rome during the end of nineteenth century. Love for the wife Ginevra and mostly for his litlle son Ciro allows Episcopo to bear disappointments, naughtinesses, violences, humiliations inflicted to him by the amoral Giulio Wanzer, the lover of his wife, until, in a defense gusp of his paternal pride, Episcopo kills him before constitute to the police.

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Oct. 5, 2017

Accepted

June 6, 2017

Submitted

Jan. 11, 2017

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Keywords: Episcopo, the ridicolous man • Betrayed sentiments • Candour • Trampled dignity • Violence and humiliations • Grotesque melodrama

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